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Monday, April 11, 2016

NYC mayor Bill de Blasio under fire for 'racist' joke after he says he endorsed Clinton late because he was on 'C.P. time'

Hillary Clinton (center) made an
appearance at the Inner Circle charity show in New York City on Saturday
night with mayor Bill de Blasio (right) and Broadway musical Hamilton
cast member Leslie Odom, Jr (left)

-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says he endorsed Hillary Clinton late because he was on 'C.P. time'

Hillary
Clinton and Bill de Blasio performed skits and joked with one another
at the Inner Circle charity event in NYC on Saturday ... a parody group of journalists and local government officials who make fun of each other to raise money for charity

NYC
mayor endorsed Clinton at the end of October - he joked at the event
that it took him so long because he was on CP, or colored people, time

Clinton jumped in and said that means 'cautious politician' time

Continue sfter the cut ...

New
York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is under fire today for a joke he made
over the weekend at a charity event as he performed a skit alongside
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

De Blasio endorsed Clinton in October, months after other prominent New York Democrats, including Governor Andrew Cuomo.

She teased him about it during the Saturday evening event, and he told her, 'Sorry Hillary, I was running on C.P. time.'

Clinton jumped in and said that means 'cautious politician' time.

'C.P.
time' is actually short for 'colored people' time. As video of the
incident made the rounds on Monday, de Blasio was hit 'for making what
some said was a 'racist' joke.

The Democrat's wife, Chirlane McCray, is black, and the couple has two mixed-race children together.

Nancy
Lockhart, a Twitter user supporting Bernie Sanders, said of the
incident, 'Being married to a Black woman doesn't give him a pass.'

Jenny Mayer, a New York resident also backing Sanders, called the joke 'racist' and said she was 'offended & disgusted.'

'Is @BilldeBlasio stupid?' asked user Scott Thill.

Jonathan
Hines wrote: 'between de Blasio and Jefferson Clinton I think Hillary
needs to drop some Bills for the sake of her image'.

The NYC mayor's had problems in the past with racially-charged commentary.

He
said at the end of 2014 that he and his wife had advised their black
son, Dante, then an attendee of a Brooklyn high school, 'to be very
careful' when interacting with police.

'With
Dante, very early on, we said, "Look, if a police officer stops you, do
everything he tells you to do. Don’t move suddenly. Don’t reach for
your cellphone,' " he said on ABC. 'Because we knew, sadly, there’s a
greater chance it might be misinterpreted if it was a young man of
color.'

He said, 'It’s different for a white child. That’s just the reality in this country.'

National
police organizations were up in arms over the statement, which
suggested that police in the city de Blasio oversees are predisposed to
assume the guilt of black men.

The political union of Clinton and de Blasio has likewise been a rocky one.

He
flat-out refused to endorse the former New York senator who still owns a
home in the state when she launched her bid last April and waited six
months to give her his blessing.

The
progressive NYC mayor clashed with Clinton's team last month after
pollster Joel Benenson told reporters that his candidate would campaign
'like a senator who represented the state for eight years and lived here
for 16' and Sanders would go at it like a 'Brooklynite.'

'I assume the phrase "campaigning like a Brooklynite" is a compliment,' de Blasio said afterward.

Sanders was born in Brooklyn but moved to Vermont as an adult and represents the state in the U.S. Senate.

Clinton made fun of her metro card
mishap on April 7 when she tried to take a train in the Bronx and
couldn't swipe her pass through the turnstile

de Blasio (pictured) rapped in the style of Hamilton about how reporters are 'like shark week' when they 'attack'

Clinton
and de Blasio made nice afterward - he helped her secure her preferred
debate day - and surprised guests at the Inner Circle charity event on
Saturday night with a skit making fun of her metro card mishap earlier
in the week.

The
Inner Circle is a parody group of journalists who make fun of
government officials. The officials also tease the journalists,
according to ABC News.

Proceeds from the night, which took place at the New York Hilton Midtown, go to approximately 100 charities in the city.

The journalists performed a parody of the smash hit musical Hamilton with a skit called 'Shamilton'.

Mayor
de Blasio shared the stage with Leslie Odom, Jr, who plays Aaron Burr
in Hamilton, and rapped and ribbed with the journalists - and Clinton.

'I love this city and that's a fact but it's like shark week when you reporters attack,' he said.